2004-03-03, 21:15
great, .ty files do now work for me too!
they play from a local share no problems, fairly smoothly too. sometimes the audio gets off a bit, but a skip forward and back once or twice seems to get it back in sync.
i can also stream from my tivo directly, but only the first time i access it. so for example, on my xbox i go in to the xbms share for my tivo, i can see shows in now playing and play and number of them. if i exit the now showing on xbmc i cannot get back in until i reboot the tivo. rebooting the xbox has no effect. i can play .ty files from xbmp over and over rebooting the xbox or moving in and out of the xbms share and it doesn't affect my tivo at all. my guess is that xbmc will read from ccxstream on the tivo, but then it crashes the ccxstream process, or leaves it in some state that it cannot be accessed until restarted. i will look further in to my version of ccxstream (perhaps it is old) and also see if indeed it stops the ccxstream process or if it locks it up and report back.
one little bug about playback. i have tried turning the deinterlace filter on and off and the result is the same with either settings. it appears that the deinterlace filter is bypassed with .ty files right now.
lastly one thing that would be a great addition to .ty playback support. all .ty files are interlaced. they break up badly when there is much motion. i could be wrong, but i think everyone would prefer to view .ty files deinterlaced since they don't look right otherwise. i think it would be a great addition to have xbmc deinterlace all .ty files by default regardless of the option in the video settings area. that way people who play .ty files would not need to go back and change the setting everytime they played a .ty file and turn it back off when playing a regular noninterlaced file.
they play from a local share no problems, fairly smoothly too. sometimes the audio gets off a bit, but a skip forward and back once or twice seems to get it back in sync.
i can also stream from my tivo directly, but only the first time i access it. so for example, on my xbox i go in to the xbms share for my tivo, i can see shows in now playing and play and number of them. if i exit the now showing on xbmc i cannot get back in until i reboot the tivo. rebooting the xbox has no effect. i can play .ty files from xbmp over and over rebooting the xbox or moving in and out of the xbms share and it doesn't affect my tivo at all. my guess is that xbmc will read from ccxstream on the tivo, but then it crashes the ccxstream process, or leaves it in some state that it cannot be accessed until restarted. i will look further in to my version of ccxstream (perhaps it is old) and also see if indeed it stops the ccxstream process or if it locks it up and report back.
one little bug about playback. i have tried turning the deinterlace filter on and off and the result is the same with either settings. it appears that the deinterlace filter is bypassed with .ty files right now.
lastly one thing that would be a great addition to .ty playback support. all .ty files are interlaced. they break up badly when there is much motion. i could be wrong, but i think everyone would prefer to view .ty files deinterlaced since they don't look right otherwise. i think it would be a great addition to have xbmc deinterlace all .ty files by default regardless of the option in the video settings area. that way people who play .ty files would not need to go back and change the setting everytime they played a .ty file and turn it back off when playing a regular noninterlaced file.
